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In spite of the fact that we risk information fatigue as we are overloaded with data from the web and other media, I can’t help noticing that sometimes something I see among the hundreds of pages and pictures and clips that I view every week “sticks” and begins to embed itself on another level. This [...]
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Last week was interesting … For a start, the Daily Mail published a story about a deformed calf being taken from its mother and shot on a farm in the Bristol area that supplies milk to Cadbury’s. It was just one of the many cruel details uncovered by a Viva! investigation. This was “shocking” enough [...]
Filed under: Environment, Milk Monday, Vegan, Vegetarian | Tagged: Agriculture, Animal welfare, Dairy, Farming, Food, Greening, Lifestyle, Veganism | 3 Comments »
I’m trying this as an experiment. I am on day 5 of using no soap or shampoo, just water, to wash and shave with. This may come as a surprise to anyone who knows how fond I am of natural plant based and home-made soaps. Why give up soap? From the top of my head, [...]
Filed under: Contemporary Culture, Miscellanea, Natural Living, Vegan | Tagged: Advice, Greening, Lifestyle, Paleo | 2 Comments »
Sometimes I get asked why I am vegan. This was more common when I first transitioned into abstaining from animal products. Nowadays I am more likely to get what seems like polite and accommodating indifference. I sit at tables longing for someone to pop the question and give me permission to discuss something that is [...]
Filed under: Contemporary Culture, Environment, Milk Monday, Natural Living, Vegan, Vegetarian | Tagged: Animal welfare, Cooking, Dairy, Food, Greening, Lifestyle, Spirituality, Veganism, Vegetarianism | 2 Comments »
In Biblical times, what was a land “flowing with milk and honey” given that that land was very hot and they had no fridges to store the milk? It sounds pretty smelly to me. For thousands of years before the invention of pasteurisation and refrigeration, nomadic peoples had found ways of storing dairy in a [...]
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I have been asked a few times recently to explain the link between our western meat (and by extension, dairy) habit and the problems of poverty and starvation on a global scale. Generally, I tie myself in knots because of the complexity of the connections. Any explanation is going to be an over simplification but [...]
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